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Italian Republic
National name: Repubblica Italiana
President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1999)
Prime Minister: Massimo D'Alema (1998)
Area: 116,500 sq. mi. (301,230 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 56,735,130 (average annual rate of natural increase: –0.1%); birth rate: 9.3/1000; infant mortality rate: 6.3/1000; density per sq. mi.: 487
Capital and largest city (1994 est.): Rome, 2,693,383
Other large cities: Milan, 1,561,438; Naples, 1,204,149; Turin, 952,736; Genoa, 706,754; Palermo, 694,749; Florence, 460,924; Bologna, 394,969; Catania, 372,212; Bari, 355,352; Venice, 306,439
Monetary units: Lira and euro
Languages: Italian; small German-, French-, and Slovene-speaking minorities
Ethnicity/race: Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south), Sicilians, Sardinians
Religions: Roman Catholic 98%, other 2%
Literacy rate: 97%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1998 est.): $1.181 trillion, $20,800 per capita. Real growth rate: 1.5%. Inflation: 1.8%. Unemployment: 12.5%. Arable land: 31%. Agriculture: fruits, vegetables, grapes, potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, grain, olives; beef, dairy products; fish. Labor force: 23.193 million; services, 61%; industry, 32%; agriculture, 7% (1996). Industry: tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food processing, textiles, motor vehicles, clothing, footwear, ceramics. Natural resources: mercury, potash, marble, sulfur, dwindling natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, coal. Exports: $243 billion (f.o.b., 1998): engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, beverages and tobacco; minerals and nonferrous metals. Imports: $202 billion (f.o.b., 1998):engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing; food, beverages and tobacco. Major trading partners: Germany, France, U.S., U.K., Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium-Luxembourg.
